Where is Fred?

[Bren In Pots]

What you need is a spider ladder

[rustylady]

What you need is a spider ladder

Too much like hard work. I just wish I'd caught him this morning!!

[Glutton4...]

The thing I hate is when one has been in and spun an invisible web. You then run a bath, and get tangled up in the wet web, which seems to have transformed into nylon line!

[Snadger]

Is he called Fred cos he weaves freds? (I'll just get my coat..........)

[Hilary B]

Remember all of you people calling them Fred or Boris that most of the big spiders are ladies!
The house we surveyed today had LOADS of spiders in the garden, mostly ones like the photo (I think they are 'Common Cross Garden Spider' named for the pale cross on the back). One of them had caught a wasp! I have seen spiders deliberately help wasps escape (dangerous prey) but this brave lady wanted her dinner, and was prepared to risk the sting.

[rustylady]

Is he called Fred cos he weaves freds? (I'll just get my coat..........)

They're just called Fred cos that's what the kids called them when they were little so they wouldn't be frightened of them. It's a nice friendly name. I spose Freda would do if we're going to question the sex of them.

[rustylady]

Remember all of you people calling them Fred or Boris that most of the big spiders are ladies!
The house we surveyed today had LOADS of spiders in the garden, mostly ones like the photo (I think they are 'Common Cross Garden Spider' named for the pale cross on the back). One of them had caught a wasp! I have seen spiders deliberately help wasps escape (dangerous prey) but this brave lady wanted her dinner, and was prepared to risk the sting.

My grandchildren call those ones shredded wheat spiders.

[rustylady]

Update on Fred(a?). Was in the bath this morning again (must have squeezed into the plughole). Evicted with the help of a plastic beaker and some card. Now re-homed in the garden.

[kirsty b]

The thing I hate is when one has been in and spun an invisible web. You then run a bath, and get tangled up in the wet web, which seems to have transformed into nylon line!

I had a web in the face on Sunday morning, went to run some water in the kitchen sink and the web caught on me..made me jump a bit but there was a web about 1.5ft across over my kitchen sink with a big fat spider sitting in the middle...left it where it was to show OH, then spider was evicted to the garden.
Have a spider living in my car too, cannot find it to evict it as there are many hidey holes in the motor...a bit disconcerting when you are driving along and the offspring shout 'woah, look at the size of THAT mum' and you glance down to see it strolling about the car

[weekendwellies]

Update on Fred(a?). Was in the bath this morning again (must have squeezed into the plughole). Evicted with the help of a plastic beaker and some card. Now re-homed in the garden.

Yaaayyyy well done you Rustylady!

[Glutton4...]

I had a web in the face on Sunday morning, went to run some water in the kitchen sink and the web caught on me..made me jump a bit but there was a web about 1.5ft across over my kitchen sink with a big fat spider sitting in the middle...left it where it was to show OH, then spider was evicted to the garden.
Have a spider living in my car too, cannot find it to evict it as there are many hidey holes in the motor...a bit disconcerting when you are driving along and the offspring shout 'woah, look at the size of THAT mum' and you glance down to see it strolling about the car

I often get them in the face when climbing through post and rail fences, like at the stables - yeeeuuucch!

As for the car, well, mine is usually full of them! Some of the gardens I do don't have anywhere to leave the weeds, so I bag them and bring them home to dispose of, and they seem to come from there. Usually there's at least two or three taking up residence in the back of the Landy, where my tools go, and one living in the door mirror!

[HeyWayne]

Being of a lofty disposition I can often be found flapping around my head like a lunatic first thing as I walk through webs strung across the top of doorframes, or from hanging baskets etc. This morning however they were bathed in sunlight so where clearly visible and thus avoidable.

We have a monster of a spider currently residing in our bedroom - we call him sir. Took a photo on my phone t'other day and you can see his eyes in the photo if you zoom in slightly.

He was above the headboard this morning, but he's diasppeared again...

[HeyWayne]

Ok, saved the pictures that I loaded up onto Twitter t'other night:

[weekendwellies]

He's a cracker HW. I have his twin staying at my house. I could hear scratching the other night, and thinking the cat may have got stuck somewhere, I went exploring and discovered the cause of the scratching noises was Sir's twin making his way up the side of a cardboard box I have my jars in.

[janeyo]

J*sus HW how can you sleep with that thing in your bedroom let alone near your head!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

*feel a bit queasy